DMK leader M.K. Stalin said: “It is for the first time in the state that IT officials have raided the house of a serving Chief Secretary. It is a disgrace.”

The Income Tax department recently seized 177 kg of gold and cash totalling Rs 96 crore in old 500 and 1,000 rupee notes and Rs 34 crore in new currency from businessmen J. Shekhar Reddy, Srinivasalu and Prem. Reddy, a contractor, had reportedly executed a lot of work for the Tamil Nadu government.